socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

BlackLine said Newton will be responsible for technology direction on its software. BlackLine has been busy growing its executive ranks in recent months, having also recently hired Charles Best as its CFO earlier this year.

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CTO Hire Demand Los Angeles Media 145

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. Becka Klauber Richter: Helpr is an app for babysitters on demand. We've had a lot of advisors along the way, in the financial and technology realm, which has helped us with everything.

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Demand CTO Coach Screening CTO Hire 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Wall was previously co-founder and CTO of on-demand laundry startup Washio. Santa Monica-based Tuition.io , the startup which helps employers offer up student loan repayment assistance as part of their employee benefits, has named Bobby Wall as Vice President of Engineering at the company. Tuition.io

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Santa Monica Venture Capital Demand Startup 113

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

An empty textbox, demanding to be filled with a concise, compelling summary to impress potential employers is daunting. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Fill it with the right words, and your dream job could be right around the corner.

Generative AI 295

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence TechEmpower Tips 295

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Relativity Space chief technology officer Jordan Noone next to one of the company’s 3-D printers. “We’ve spoken to what amounts to billions of dollars in potential demand for the company over time… They need a faster, better, cheaper solution.”

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Chief Technology Officer SpaceX Los Angeles Venture Capital 168

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2015

The company''s Chief Technology Officer is Dave Meyer (Free Credit Report, eNeighborhoods), and its Chief Product Officer is Jeanne Anderson (DogVacay). The funding included $2M in a strategic investment and $1M in a venture commitment, according to the company. Names of those investors were not announced.

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Chief Technology Officer Santa Monica Venture Capital Demand 100

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Danna and his co-founder, CTO Sean Stavropoulos, previously worked together at Fullscreen as head of product and head of engineering, respectively. Individual clients have differing requirements, treatments may take more or less time, and specialists are not robots whose time management can be predicted.

Help 195

Help Startup UCLA Tool 195

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. CTO Founder - Do they really still need a technical advisor? I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

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Technical Advisors CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 332

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In layman's terms, while conventional search mechanisms demand exact phrases or keywords to return relevant results, LLMs can understand and interpret the intent and context behind a query. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Our team is excited to be working at the forefront of this revolution.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Tool Knowledge Base 346

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Mobile on-demand taxi app developer Flywheel , which has been attempting to leverage the existing taxi and transportation infrastructure in Los Angeles to go head-to-head against Uber, said Thursday that it has raised $12.0M in a Series C funding, and installed a new CEO and executive team. READ MORE>>.

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Mobile Demand 147

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 30, 2013

For instance, a friend of mine found it difficult, as a young engineer, to establish a relationship with his company''s CTO. The CTO''s calendar was booked solid, except for lunch, which he spent running. My friend, who was not a runner at the time, summoned the courage to ask the CTO if he could run with him.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 17, 2012

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 -- Amplify Roundtables presents: The Leading Edge Technology Series Join us and connect with technology professionals for an extraordinary evening in Galpins classic car museum! WHAT'S HOT AND WHY?

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Technology Demand Media Marketing 113

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 12, 2022

Much of the demand, as of late, for freshly prepared foods is from consumers shifting to healthier lifestyles, which has even prompted grocery stores to provide more ready-to-eat meals to cater to consumers popping in quickly to pick up food. Amazon expands palm-scanning payment tech to 65 more Whole Foods locations.

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Invest Los Angeles Startup Funding 175

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Demand Media, the internet publishing firm which is in the midst of an IPO effort, is the brainchild of Richard Rosenblatt, who was at the reins of Intermix, the parent firm of MySpace, and brokered the sale of MySpace to News Corporation. www.demandmedia.com).

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Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based NXTV , a provider of video on demand and IPTV systems for the hotel and lodging industry, disclosed Monday that the firm has named a new executive team. Tags: nxtv executive team iptv video demand.

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Demand Hollywood Los Angeles Sales 100

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In all, Sean Breuner, AvantStay’s CEO who co-founded the company with Reuben Doetsch (the CTO), said that 750,000 guests stay in its network of properties, with the average number per homes being seven guests. “Customers are starting to meet the demand from an experience perspective in rental homes,” he said.

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Platform Invest Los Angeles Funding 139

Tech.Co

APRIL 13, 2015

I am battled tested head of technology with many successes under my belt. I am an expert at building practical and scalable software that meets the demands of real world customers. As CTO of Teletrac, I managed operations on two continents for both software and hardware. My passion is building impactful software that people use.

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Platform Startup Demand Software 70

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO). What is Beatshare? That's how Barry came in.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

I was selling products to Live Nation, Demand Media, Kelly Blue Book, Rovi, and the Screen Actors Guild. My co-founder and CTO, Steven Corwin, is a graduate of UCLA's Electrical Engineering program, and built our program and lead the development of our technology platform. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2010

Back by popular demand Schmoozd 3 is set for this Thursday, July 29th 6-10 PM at Wokano in Santa Monica, CA. Have a great idea and product but need that extra boost of CTO juice to really get it going. Well, there will be table with some of the brightest CTO's setup to give you the advice you need to find the CTO of your dreams.

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Santa Monica LAVA Advertising Idealab 71

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. Was there consumer demand? It also happens to be how your car likely tells the distance to objects when you park or if you have a side assist whether you can change lanes safely. No brainer.

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

And what upsets people is that there are different quantities of those components available in the economic marketplace; and the law of supply and demand is pretty good about consequently assigning a value to them. What confuses us is that the components can all reside in one person, or multiple people.

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Startup Sales Ideas Entrepreneur 189

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

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Networking CTO Hire CTO Coach Mobile 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We went out on the Android and Blackberry, and as we were going out to market, we realized that we could use that consumer launch as a proving ground for our technology, and leverage that to the B2B market. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Zachary Cancio (CTO, co-founder) Duke ECE/CS 2009. Growing our base of theaters as fast as possible to match our customer demand. Built last business (sold cell phones and communications products) to $1.5M+ in revenues. I love movies, basketball, skiing, and snorkeling (especially in Maui). 3rd Startup. How many partners?

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Help Netflix Research Screening 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

Certainly it’s important to optimize current operations, but in this age of rapidly changing demands and competitors, it’s more important change quickly as the market changes. Make sure you have team members covering both domains, to balance your decision input. You are the business scientist, to balance data scientists.

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CTO Coach CIO Startup Competition 59

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Mark tells us: there is a lot of demand for developers right here in L.A. Just saw a great post by Mark Geller - Developers wanted… in Los Angeles, U.S.A. you can get to know Mark a bit more in my post Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller ). who would love to talk with you.

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Software Development Develop Development Software 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Zach Ferres (Chief Technology Officer) has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15. In a situation that could have made things fall apart (the care of my father was very demanding of time and focus) my co-founders and the others on our team kept everything moving forward and we launched on time with a beautiful website.

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Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. I also brought in a CTO, and brough in a head of product, who is helping to put together our own internal CRM, so that we can be more effective and efficient at discovering viral content before it becomes viral.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors demand more than that. The quality of the team, and overall financial health are equally important, as well as how your offering compares to competitors. Now that You've Got MVP, It's Time to Think About MVC You can't raise money on achieving an MVP.

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa. If I get demand from people after this video to do a deeper dive on term sheets we will. That’s normal. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Funding 405

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Based on their understanding, from a publisher’s perspective, of what advertisers demand and the amount of work required to create extraordinary advertising experiences, the trio set out to solve that dilemma for other publishers. That same team founded the popular site Buzznet, which became BuzzMedia and is now known as SpinMedia.

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Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Over demand led the SV Angel team to double the size of the fund to $20 million. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch. Blippy is a service that allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them. Read more: Index Ventures and TechCrunch.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

I just really felt market demanded this and it's a productivity tool that could be used by an entire organization or individual. Eric Sikola: We've got seven people full time, and all our development is offshore, our CTO is onshore, and we have people doing graphical design locally plus others helping part time.

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

A really great example of this is described by Steve Rentoid in Inventing Demand. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc. to source potential candidates. In fact, if you do both, it’s called a Zig-Zag strategy. He wanted to build a business that rented electronics. He would put up ads.

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eHarmony Marketing Startup Zag 204